University of Washington

PhD in Health Economics

Seattle, WA

2022 (expected)

Dissertation: The value of reducing uncertainty of HIV-prevalence estimates at the zip code level

University Cayetano Heredia

MS Epidemiology

Lima, Peru

2015

Thesis: Income-Elasticity of Body Mass Index across categories of wealth

University of the Pacific

BS Economics

Lima, Peru

2011

Thesis: Cost-benefit analysis of enhancing the primary care in Peru

Research Assistant

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

Sep. 2017 –

Conducted supervised independent research in economic evaluation of competing alternatives for healthcare, mathematical modeling of cervical cancer and HIV, preferences elicitation, econometric modeling, spatial analysis and disease mapping of infectious diseases.

Unit Chief, Vice Ministry of Healthcare and Insurance

Ministry of Health

Lima, Peru

Apr. – Aug. 2017

Lead the creation of an intelligence unit to help monitoring general performance, achievements, and deficiencies of all healthcare facilities under the purview of the Ministry.

Researcher

School of Public Health, University Cayetano Heredia

Lima, Peru

Jul. 2014 – Mar. 2017

Conducted economic evaluations of new technologies for screening and treatment of sexually transmitted disease and public policy analysis of the healthcare system.

Assessing payers’ preferences for Real World Evidence in the United States: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Value in Health, Ahead of press

N/A

2021

Saldarriaga, EM, Hauber, B, Carlson, JJ, Barthold, D, Veenstra, DL, Devine, B

HIV-prevalence mapping using Small Area Estimation in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique at the first sub-national level

Annals of Global Health. 2021;87(1)

N/A

2021

Saldarriaga, EM

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of A Program to Delay Progression to Dialysis and Death Among CKD Patients in Lima, Peru

Cost Effectiveness and Resources Allocation (CERA) Journal, 2021;19(1)

N/A

2021

Saldarriaga, EM, Bravo-Zúñiga J, Hurtado-Roca Y, Suarez V

Cost of community-based human papillomavirus self-sampling in Peru: a micro-costing study.

The Lancet Global Health. In press.

N/A

N/A

Shin MB, Fiestas JL, Saldarriaga EM, Barnabas RV, Gimbel S, Garcia PJ.

Finding and Treating Early Stage HIV Infections: A cost-effectiveness analysis of the SABES study in Lima, Peru.

Submitted.

N/A

N/A

Ulrich A, Adamson B, Saldarriaga EM, et al. 

Estimating HIV-prevalence point estimates and uncertainty bounds at the zip code level using existing data. Case of study in Atlanta, Georgia.

In preparation

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Saldarriaga EM, Basu A.

Teaching Assistant in the Certificate in Health Economics and Outcomes Research

The CHOICE Institute, University of Washington

Seattle, WA

2020 -

Lecturer in Economics

School of Public Health, University Cayetano Heredia

Lima, Peru

2015 - 2016

Teaching Asssistant in Microeconomics and Econometrics

School of Economics, University of the Pacific

Lima, Peru

2010 - 2014

Lusted Award Winner for Outstanding Presentation in Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments

43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)

N/A

2021

2021 Louis Sr. and Marilyn Garrison Endowed Prize in Health Policy and Economics

The CHOICE Institute, University of Washington.

N/A

2021

Rubenstein Endowment Grant to support Dissertation research.

School of Pharmacy, University of Washington.

N/A

2021

Stergachis Endowed Fellowship for International Exchange Award.

Department of Global Health, University of Washington.

N/A

2018

Full-tuition Scholarship for the MS in Epidemiology.

School of Public Health, University Cayetano Heredia

N/A

2015

Graduate student representative in the School of Pharmacy Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council (DEIC)

N/A

N/A

2020 -

Reviewer Journal of Biomedical Informatics & Value in Health Regional Issues

N/A

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2020 -

Student representative in the CHOICE Institute PhD Admission Committee

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2020

President of the University of Washington’s ISPOR Student Chapter

N/A

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2019